"Especially after your kind offer of your own boudoir." Lady Janet remained perfectly unmoved.

"I do _not_ understand you," she answered, just as quietly as ever.
Grace's temper came to her assistance.

She recovered the assurance which had marked her first appearance on the scene.
"In that case," she resumed, "I must enter into particulars, in justice to myself.

I can place but one interpretation on the extraordinary change in your ladyship's behavior to me downstairs.

The conduct of that abominable woman has at last opened your eyes to the deception that has been practiced on you.